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(Image: Pebble) Pebble has some excellent and affordable smartwatches and with its continued software updates, it’s definitely a wearable platform you should consider. As many of us Pebble Time 2 Kickstarter backers look forward to the new watch coming in the next few months, Pebble just announced some major firmware ...

Image: China Labor Watch China Labor Watch has skewered Apple over worker exploitation in the manufacture of iPhones in China (PDF). This is not the first time that Apple been has attacked for working practices at some of its suppliers, following a furore about suicides and riots at a Foxconn ...

When you think of an activity tracking wrist band, it’s unlikely that you would think to pair that with a Bluetooth headset. That’s exactly what Huawei has been doing and the new Huawei TalkBand B3 is its third generation offering up this combo. It’s been a while since I’ve regularly ...

Image: CNET The current Apple Watch doesn’t have GPS and it still only lasts for one day. Adding GPS to a smartwatch focused on complementing your smartphone and providing mobile apps just doesn’t make sense. Rumors of a new Apple Watch continue to appear with the latest from a KGI ...

Apple’s journey to selling its billionth iPhone. A billion is one of those big deal numbers that make headlines. It’s such a huge number that we really aren’t able to wrap our heads around it, and that gives it a mystique that makes headlines. And this week Apple sold its ...

iOS 10 has added the ability to check whether there’s water in the Lightning port. See also: How to undo iOS 10’s most annoying feature If you’re unlucky enough to get water in the Lightning port, iOS 10 throws up this handy message: Be aware though that this feature only ...

After launching in the UK and Switzerland, France is now Apple Pay’s third European market. Image: Pret a Manger Apple has finally launched its mobile payments service Apple Pay in France, bringing the number of countries it supports to eight. According to Apple’s French website, iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch ...

Apple is expected to unveil the iPhone 7 in a couple of months, and the rumor mill is already churning out new guesses and “exclusives” from “sources” on a daily basis. iPhone SE review Back to the future with a 4-inch pocket powerhouse A smaller version of the 4.7-inch iPhone ...

Despite the continued global march of the Chinese smartphones, here in the US the battle for the title comes down to Samsung or Apple. These two companies account for 66 percent of smartphone sales. In the latest Kantar Worldpanel article Samsung’s Galaxy S7/S7 Edge accounted for 16 percent of recent ...

When is a lock screen not a lock screen? As smartphones get progressively better, stronger, more secure, and more advanced in almost every way, there’s been a backwards pedal in one small, barely thought about corner of millions of smartphones: the lock screen. Your lock screen keeps hackers, thieves, snooping ...